Instructor Mary Tunuchuk of Chefornak said she sews raincoat parkas out of seal intestine for her son and grandsons to keep them warm and dry when they go seal hunting. Here she is demonstrating how to make an egaleq, or window, as a project for "Materials Traditions:Sewing Gut," a community workshop organized by the Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center and the Anchorage Museum that took place Jan. 24-25 at the Yupiit Piciryarait Cultural Center in Bethel.
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A Wisconsin man who started a nonprofit to safely recover submerged bodies will be bringing high-resolution side-scanning sonar equipment to the search on Dec. 26. Meanwhile, searchers from Bethel, Kwethluk, Akiak, Akiachak, Atmautluak, Napakiak, Napaskiak, and the Alaska State Troopers continue to drag an open lead of ice-free Kuskokwim River and under river ice where the body of one of the missing, Ralph "Jimmy" Demantle, 51, was recovered on Dec. 14. Searchers are hoping to find the bodies of two other missing travelers, 26 year-old George Evan, and 27 year-old Sally Stone, both of Akiak.
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